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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






2. Where can you get more vitamin D?






3. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






4. What are healthy sources of fats?






5. Name six sources of grains






6. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






7. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






8. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






9. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






10. What foods have high quality protein?






11. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






12. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






13. What is the function of vitamin C?






14. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






15. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






16. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






17. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






18. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






19. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






20. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






21. What function is vitamin D?






22. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






23. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






24. What is normal BMI?






25. What type of people need extra protein?






26. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






27. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






28. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






29. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






30. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






31. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






32. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






33. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






34. What is normal albumin levels?






35. What is the function of vitamin E?






36. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






37. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






38. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






39. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






40. What function is vitamin A?






41. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






42. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






43. Fats can lead to some medical problems






44. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






45. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






46. How many calories/gram is protein?






47. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






48. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






49. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






50. What is RDA of protein?